GOP: The Party of Lawlessness. Four Decades of Criminal Behavior.

[Mugsy]

via Mugsy's Rap Sheet:

GOP: The Party of Lawlessness. Four Decades of Criminal Behavior.

I'm probably not telling you anything that hasn't crossed your mind already, but sometimes we just need to say things out loud for them to sink in: For all their talk about "patriots" and "love of America", the GOP really HAS become a party with a total lack of respect for the law (apologies to Sheriff Buford T. Justice).

Two recent events helped put a punctuation mark on this: the arrest of Conservative filmmaker James O'Keefe, and the recent decision by the Conservative-controlled Supreme Court overturning over 100 years of precedent regarding "corporate campaign contributions", giving Corporations... even foreign owned ones... the same First Amendment rights as American citizens.

Now, you'd be perfectly justified in thinking me brain-dead if only now, after eight years of Bush & Cheney's law breaking, I was just beginning to realize Republicans have no respect for the law. But The Bush Years were mere straws on the camels back. This has been going on for decades.

The O'Keefe break-in, where he and three friends (two of whom dressed as telephone repairmen) accessed Louisiana Senator Mary Landrieu's office in an apparent attempt to bug her telephone, has been dubbed "Little Watergate", referring to Nixon's botched break-in/bugging of the National Democratic headquarters in 1972. So now we're looking at a 38 year history of Republican disregard for the Rule of Law. (You're excused if you don't know too much about this story, as there has been a near media-blackout regarding it. O'Keefe's first "story", a questionable and highly edited condemnation of a select few ACORN workers suggesting things they shouldn't have, made ALL the major networks. And Fox turned O'Keefe into a minor celebrity. Flash forward a few months to his arrest last week, and it's "O'Keefe who?")

Republicans LOVE to preach to others about law & order... citing it frequently in the late 90's as the justification for impeaching Bill Clinton over something as trivial as lying about having an affair with a young intern. The argument was that "the affair itself is irrelevant. He lied about the affair UNDER OATH, and therefore is guilty of a Federal crime" (the reason "the affair itself was irrelevant" is because several of President Clinton's chief critics, including House Speaker Newt Gingrich and prominent Senator Henry Hyde were BOTH having extra-marital affairs and publicly lying about it at the time. But neither had to testify to that fact "under oath". Lucky for them.)

Vice President Dick Cheney outed an undercover CIA Agent (obliterating an entire undercover operation dedicated to monitoring Iran's nuclear weapons program, jeopardizing the lives of all involved) because her husband called him out for lying about Iraq's WMD capabilities in the New York Times. His Chief of Staff Lewis "Scooter" Libby was convicted of "obstruction of justice" while investigating the outing of said CIA Agent.

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But I'm not looking here to rehash all the crimes of the Bush Administration specifically.
 

This week also saw the conviction of Scott Roeder, the Right-wing Anti-abortion extremist that murdered Dr. George Tiller... or, if you live in Mankato, MN, it was Doctor Tiller who was convicted in his own murder according to their headline: "Tiller Convicted in Abortion Doctor's Murder". Dumb mistake or Freudian slip? I'll let you decide.

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After weeks of Republican outcries over the "insanity" of putting accused terrorists "on trial like common criminals", the Obama Administration finally relented on trying alleged 9/11 mastermind "KSM" in New York City at the request of NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg. To his credit, Bloomberg did not back down in response to Right-wing pressure against trying "terrorists" inside the United States, instead citing "rising costs" and "logistics" making such a trial there impractical. If I had my guess, I'd say the rising complication of holding the trial in NYC is more due to RW crazies protesting the trial and possibly threatening the courthouse with "bomb threats" than any alleged fear of "terrorist reprisals". (THINK: these people have been in Gitmo for eight years. How many attempted terrorist attacks have there been on that facility?)

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You must understand. To Republicans, law breakers are degenerate scum with no respect for "America, for which it stands"... until it's THEM at odds with the law, and then suddenly it's "liberal activism" obstructing them, and therefore the law can be ignored, giving them a clean conscious. It's how two Supreme Court justices can swear to uphold "precedent" and "not legislate from the bench" one day, and overturn 103 years of precedent the next. It's how a "documentary filmmaker" can don disguises and engage in likely criminal (certainly dishonest) behavior in the name of "exposing criminal behavior" without a hint of irony. It's how a man can proudly defend murdering a doctor he accuses of "murdering babies". It is how Republican critics of "illegal immigration" can employ undocumented workers with a clear conscious. It's how indicted felon and former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay can appear on "Dancing with the Stars" without an ounce of shame. And it is how the Fox Opinion Channel can call itself a "News" organization with a straight face.

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[opihimoimoi]

1. KnR Ya tellum Mugsy

[SlingBlade]

2. YEP. Can anyone name a Re-Puke President in the last

forty years who SHOULD NOT HAVE been impeached for high crimes and misdemeanors
Not to mention for just being dirty fucking assholes ?

Name One Please.:nuke:

OH... K & R
Cause we need more of this ! Off ya go.

[Mugsy]

5. I tried.

The last Republican President before Nixon was Eisenhower, and I couldn't think of anything illegal done under his Administration. I couldn't tell you anything about the Republicans in Congress from that time either.

Ford gets a "minor" pass for never having been elected. One could claim "obstruction of justice" for pardoning Nixon, but for the most part, he wasn't in office long enough to do much more damage.

I would be most grateful to any reader that could enumerate HW "Poppy" Bush's crimes in the Comments of my blog entry. :) I just didn't have time to do the research.

[SlingBlade]

6. Yep, Eisenhower was MY only guess as well . And

Ford as you clearly pointed out was at a minimum guilty as hell for his
back room deal to pardon Nixon ....Obstruction of Justice, Whether he was "Elected"
or not, He was after all, Still an American citizen and subject to our laws.

Now here's and even sticker question .... (I know, Looking Backwards, But...)

Imagine that Nixon had indeed been Impeached AND Prosecuted for his actions.

My bet is we would have had no future Rumsfeld, Bush sr., Cheney, Rice, FoxNews and this
damnable Neo-Con presence that simply waits in the Green Room preparing to take up
EXACTLY where they left off before democrats were forced to go to intermission by the
WILL of the People.

That's my historical take anyhow on Re-Pukes, Democrats, Looking Backwards and Ignored Judgment :(

But then, I am an admitted backwards looker, What the hell do I know. :shrug:

[givemebackmycountry]

3. That about sums up in a neat little post...

WHY I HATE REPUBLICANS.

But yes indeed, I have a couple of hundred more reasons and most include a fourteen letter word.

[lib2DaBone]

4. Andrea Bocelli crys for justice......We can hope...

The Republicans continue to devastate.

When will humanity wake up to the fact that we are all humans... trying to get thru this maze?